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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
The Birmingham and Atlantic.

The airline from Savannah TO Birming
ham, while one of the longest, is unquestion-
ably one of the most important railroad
enterprises that has ever been projected in
the South.
Savannah, with twenty feet of wat
er on her bar, and river channel that is
TO be deepened to twenty-eight feet, enjoys
great natural advantages which have been
considerably enlarged in recent years. She
is the largest shipper of naval stores in the
world, the second of cotton, and the second
of timber The fruits and vegetables of
Florida pass through her gates. and the
great current of Northern travel into
Florida flows through, her doors.
But Savannah has too long been contented
with her present environments. Her opu
lent merchants, naturally in possession of
an extensive and rich territory, have not
pushed with their full power into distant
fields and captured their productions.
Birmingham, young, athletic, and full
Of energy, conscious Of her own
ability and her superior mineral adj
vantages, has, with her own inherent
strength, placed herself foremost among the
Industrial cities of the South. The Birming-
ham and Atlantic airline will give her the
shortest and most direct outlet to
the Atlantic. Alabama's coal, iron, marble,
gold, lead, tin, tale, etc, will seek the ocean
through Savannah and through her doors
will pass the corn, wheat and meats of the
great Northwest. This road will cheaper
living in Savannah, for it will not only
materially shorten the distance to Birming
ham, but it will be powerful competitor
for western freights, thereby insuring a
minimum instead of maximum rate of
charges. Cheap living, it is well known,
is the greatest factor in a city's prosperity.
As surely as the straight line is the
shortest distance between two given points,
so surely will this railroad prosper. 1t is
the shortest line that can be built from Sa
vannah to the coal and iron fields of Ala
bama and to the granaries and
meat houses of the Northwest What
is needed now in its formative
stage is the support its merits entitle it to
from Savannah, Birmingham, Macon, La
Grange, and the other cities, towns and
counties through which it is being built,
and which it will serve to develop and
nrOSner
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
My Little Girls Bright Eyes.

Yes, have gems that do outshine
Your diamond Does the truth surprise?
Then place your bauble here above
My little girls bright eyes.
All, better than the shining stones,
My rich and purse proud neighbor buys,
Those cleaning jewels dark and deep,
My little girls bright eyes.
Oh. when she laughs they are so brave
And beautiful, And when she cries
Golconda's mines are dimmed beside
My little girls bright eyes.
Sweetest of all they shne thro' tears,
For then see the soul that lies
Deep hid, Il sacred shrine. beneath
My little girls bright eyes.
Oh. when gaze into their depths.
My trembling heart sees hope arise!
Loves in the lode-star of my lie,
My little girls bright eyes
What care tho never win
Glory or gold from time that flies?
am content if fate but leave
My little girls bright eyes NJ. y. B.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
A Plain Understanding.
From the Detroit Free Press.


Close by a railroad junction in Alabama
where we had to wait sometime for the other
train, was a general store, and several of us
went over to see how business was done. The
proprietor was a little old man with a benevo-
lent face, and his clerk was his son, who was
hawk-eyed, shaTp-nosed young man with no be
nevolence about him. The customers were prin-
cipally negroes, and there was great run ON
some new tin coffee pots just unpacl1ed. The
one hung up for sample was marked 25c on
the bottom. Every time a darkey asked the old
man for coffee pot he was referred to ''Wil-
ham," and every time William was asked for
calico he referred the customer to father. We
saw this go on until our curiosity was aroused,
and the Colonel finally asked the old man for an
explanation.
''Stranger?" queried the old man in reply.
Yes"
Don't live about here?''
"Oh, no; just waiting for the train"
''Well, then it's just this way: William has
the conscience to ask 40c. for 25c. coffee pot
and as he's eetle set in his ways l let him tend
TO that line"
But about the calco:"
well, try as hard as / may, l can't ask over
1Sc. for l0c. calico, and as William knows how
rigid my principles are he never interferes with
my side of the store"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

MEETINGS. Georgia Tent No. 15l, !. O. r.;
Savannah Yacht Club; Solomon's Lodge No. l.,
F. A.. Workmans and Traders Loan and
Building Association Board Of Trade.
SPECIAL NoTIcEs-The Morning News Steam
Printing House; Owner for a Watch Wanted,
Haywood, Gage & Co; Card of Thanks.
EpUCAT1oNAI,-Rome Female College, Rome,
Ga; Wesleyan Female College, Macon, Ga;
Southern Female College, LaGrange, Ga.
NOTICE TO CoNTRACToRs-Bi for Remodel
ing Court House at Townsville, Ga.
SARDINEs-C NJ Gilbert & Co.
CHEAP COLUMN ADVERTISEMENT Help Want
ed; Employment Wanted; For Rent For Sale;
Lost; Miscellaneous
AUCTION SALEs-Furniturc. Guns, Etc, by D.
r. Kennedy Tomatoes, byI D. I.aRoche's Sons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
BLUE EYES AND SOFT VOICE.
Phoebe Couzins Captivated During an
Interview With the President.

Interview With the President.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat
A reporter called on Miss Phoebe Couzins yes
terday, at the United States MarshaIs Office
and questioned her in regard to her interview
with President Cleveland while in Washington a
few days ago.
Yes, said she, Il saw President Cleveland
Immediately after his return from the Adiron-
dacks. He looked a little sun burned, but
didn't notice any fly bites or other indications
that he had been having hard time in the
woods
what did the President say about coming to
st. Louis ?"
''He said that he certainly intended to come
In his own words he could not refuse so mag
ni1cent an invitation as had been extended him
he would be very much pressed by business at
the time, but ne intended to make the visit any
how"
Then you are sure the President will conner"
Il am sure of it unless something happens to
prevent He told me SO, and l do not think
am violating any confidence in repeating what
''Will Mrs. Cleveland come also?"
Il think so, but am not sure. Ibid not see her.
as she had gone TO Oswego to visit some school
friends. | remarked to the President that
thought the ladies of St. Louis should have been
represented on the committee which invited
him to visit the city, so as 10 make sure of Mrs
Cleveland accompanying him. He replied that
she would probably come with him anyhow In
reference to the unpleasant things which have
been said about his visit to ST. Louis, he said
that he would pay no attention to them"
Speaking of President Cleveland's manners
Miss CouziuS said
Il like to talk with him; he is so unassuning
that one feels perfectly at ease in his presence.
He has all the polish of President Arthur, and
is genial and pleasing in his conversation. He
has a fine blue eye, which has such kindly ex-
preston when he looks at you; but what ad-
mire most is his soft. well-modulated voice.
Here the conversation turned on other topics
and in referring to herself Miss Couzns said:
Il am tired of political life, and long to go
back to my literary work. There is no humanity
in politics, and there never will be until women
have an equal say with the men The more
see of law and politics the more am convinced
that woman's presence is needed in both"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
Logic.
From the Boston Transcript.

Little Nellie 3 years old, went To walk on Sun
day afternoon with her parents, The party
strollcd along the bank Of the reservoir con
corning the use of which Nellie asked many
questions. While they were there they wit
messed an exciting episode-a small boys straw
hat was blown off his head into the reservoir
and fished out with no little difficulty with the
aid of u long pole.
That evening at supper, as Nellie was drink
ing water from glass, she asked:
lis this water the same as the water up in
the reservoiry"
YES, dear"
Nellie smacked her lips in an experimental
way, and with slight expression of displeasure
Well she said, II think it tastes some of a
straw hat"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
The Ir1shman Was Ahead.
Fropt he London Truth.

AT certain debating society an English doc
tor recently argued that the Irish were natur-
ally depraved and dishonest race, and in sup
port of his position he adduCed his own expert
ence. He remarked that he had at Manchester
500 irish patients on his books and out Of this
number only thirty paid him his fees.
An lrishman rose when the doctor sat down,
and said: 'Sor, there is never an effect without
cause; there j. never a phenomenon which
does not admit Of an explanation. How. sor,can
we explain the extraordinary phenomenon to
which the doctor has called our attentions He
finds an explanation in the natural depravity Of
the Irish nature. !, sor. have another explana.
ton To offer, and Il is this: THAT the thirty
patients who paid him were the only ones that
recovered"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
AS Unnecessary as They Are Cruel.
E,,O,,, tbo JVoobjDofo,, Poet Don,

Importations of iron, steel, sugar, glass, zinc
and spelter were much larger last month than
in June of last year. The duties collected
thereon go into a treasury which cannot get rid
of the money it now has, and their imposition
enables home producers to add the amount of
the duty to their selling price, the consumer
paying all the taxes, as well those added by
home producers as those imposed upon foreign
importers. These burdens are as Unnecessary
as they are cruel
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
On Gettysburg Field.

From the NeU York Herald (h,d)
What happened there may be regarded as the
seal upon compact reconciliation. We know
how true was the amity, how absolute the eff
Placement of bitterness between the North and
South before, but nothing could so affirm this
eyes that met each other yesterday on the spot
where Pickett charged, and where the Stars and
Stripes still flew as they flew twenty-fouv years
-frA
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

In addition to emptying flfty-fve jails, as
mentioned by the MORNING News the
other day, Prohibition in Iowa has so di-
minished crime that for the first time in the
history Of the State the penitentiary at Fort
Madison is without sufficient number of
convicts TO enable the authorities 20 fill con-
tracts made upon the basis of the usual sup
ply. IL may be said, also, that in every
State where prohibition has had anything
like fair trial the business of the crimi-
Gal courts has been greatly decreased.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

On the rocks overlooking the West Shore
railroad in New York somebody has paint
cd in big letters; Prepare to meet thy
God" He evidently knows that the win
ter is coming and that no suitable substitute
for the red hot car stove has yet been dis
coyered
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

An English physician afirms that under
certain circumstances people can be driven
crazy by the playing of a piano. 1t is not
necessary to live next door to a school for
girls TO obtain proof that he is right.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

One of the New York papers says that the
Fourth of July was more generally cele-
brated in the South than in the North
Well, the South had a good deal to do with
making the da.T one to be remembered.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
Others Would be Safer Candidates.
From the PhitodeLpLia Record DEM.

FTONl NC F'H3JuHeTpNtU httOFU VIItWJ'
Whilst Mr.. Sherman is destroying himself by
injudicious speech Mr. Blaine is reconstructing
himself by profound and painful silence. But II
Mr.. Sherman should get very sick, and Mr..
Blaine get very we'll there would still be hun
dreds of men in the Republican party who
would make safer candidates for the Presi-
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
The Morning News for the Summer.

The Morning News for the Summer.
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can have the MORNING NEWS forwarded by
the earliest fast mails TO any address at the
rate of 25c. a week, 81 for a month or 81 so
for three months, cash invariably IN adj
vance. The address may be changed as
often as desired In directing change care
should be taken to mention the old as well
as the new address
Those who desire to have their home paper
promptly delivered to them while away
should leave their subscriptions at the Bust
NESS OFFICE. Special attention will be given
to make this summer service satisfactory and
to forward papers by the most direct and
quickest routes.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

President Cleveland's letters are short, but
when he writes on questions of the day he
writes TO the point.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

The story telegraphed from Washington
that Secretary Of War Endicott had ten
dered his resignation proves 10 have been
another unfounded Washington sensation,
The Washington correspondents appear TO
take very little trouble nowadays to find out
whether rumors have any truth in them or
not.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

Georgia is always ahead of her sister
States of the South, and Primus Jones' first
bale of cotton isn't needed to prove it,
either
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

The New Orleans hcdgtne says that lib
erty and liquor go hand in hand. Yes, but
it is always the wrong kind of liberty that
goes hand in hand with liquor
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

They are beginning to call Mr. Blaine
''The Sphinx" Is it because 1.-THE Plumed
Knight was failures
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
CURRENT COMMENT.
AS Good as an Exchange of Battlefags.
From the Ne,c York World (Dem.)

Gov. Fitzhugh Lee. of Virginia, made a de-
cded impression at Tammany Hall yesterday
1t was his first public appearance IN New YORK
since he rode in the procession to Gen; Grant
man It is as good as an exchange OF battle
flags to have him come North occasionally.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

The other day in Columbus, Ga, a gen
tleman died leaving a wife and three daugh
tiers. The Oldest daughter, not yet 20 years
of age, is successfully continuing her faith
er's business The blood of the proudest
families in the State courses through her
veins, but she is not above work There are
people who might think over this case with
profit.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

Philadelphia's sold fashioned Fourth of
July" was much like the modern celebration
of the day. The record of the days work in
the police and fire departments shows that
there were seven fires, three murders and
one accidental death. The number of smaller
casualties was very large. Liquor and fire
works made the day one to be remembered
by some with regret
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
An Opening for a Shoe Factory.

In former years, before the days of regu-
lar steamship lines and rapid transit by
rail- there were in the South numerous tan
neries and shoe factories. There are still
number of tanneries in the South, one OF
which, located at Chattanooga, is said to be
the largest i'll the Union. The product of
its watts, however, is not manufactured into
shoes at home, but is all sent TO the New
England States. Millions of dollars are
sent from the South every year to pay
for shoes. If this money could be
kept at home it would add largely
to tine prosperity of this section. A few
lished in New Orleans, and now there are
about 100 employing from 20 to 200
men each. 1t requires but a small amount
of capital to purchase the machinery for
making shoes, and the shoes made at home
meet with ready sale for cash. The sue
cess of a small factory in Putnam county,
in this State, proves the truth of the latter
assertion. This factory is situated seven
miles from the county seat 1t is worked
to its full capacity, and its product
is almost all bought by merchants
of towns close by. There is an
excellent opening in Savannah for such an
enterprise, as there is an abundance of Just
the kind of labor, boys and women, that
can be utilized in shoe factory, and there
is also large city and country trade to be
supplied. Is there no enterprising shoe
maker or shoe dealer who will take the in
itiative step in establishing such factoryl
Thirty years ago Savannah had large shoe
factory, and the time is now propitious for
another and more successful one
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

The Prohibition election in Floyd county
takes place on Saturday. 1t is believed that
the Prombitionists will win 10y handsome
majority. The ill-feeling that has been
caused by the contest will last long time
Unfortunately, this is one of the results of
such contests that cannot be avoided
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

Memphis doesn't send flowers to muir
derers, as Louisville did in the case of the
brute Turner, but she treats such criminals
with distinguished consideration The other
day murderer was permitted by the jailer
10 attend a picnic in one of the suburbs of
the city, escorted by guard of one man.
He had good time, and no doubt the peo-
pie were inspired with deeper respect for the
laws
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

Johann Most and his Anarchist followers
in New York celebrated the Fourth of July
according to their own peculiar notions.
They had a picnic in one of the parks
Most mounted a barrel and delivered
characteristic address. Among other things,
he said that the flag of the United States
was the standard of liberty in years gone
by, but now it was the flag of the upper
10000 only. 1t was no longer the emblem
of Republicanlsm, and therefore the work
mgmen had good grounds to choose a flag
of their own, and that should be the red
flag He concluded by saying: To-day we
will be happy; let us drink, sing and dance
to-day. Tomorrow let us progress in our
preparations for the great social revolu-
ton" Most doubtless did not remember
that nowhere except under the flag of the
United States would he and his followers be
permitted to escape punishment for their
seditious utterances and misdeeds. He
ought TO be sent back to spend the re-
mainder of his life under the flag of his
native country. He would then better UNI
derstand the blessings Of freedom.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

Just now it appears TO be the fashion to
attack the West Point Military Academy
and to abuse the officers who graduated at
that institution Gen. James S. Robinson,
Secretary of State of Ohio, a leading Re
publican and Senator Sherman's right hand
man, says: NEARLY every great movement
for the protection of the Union at the outset
of the war was perfected in opposition TO
the West Point clique, The Ordnance De
partment was so backward that orders had
to be given over the heads of its chiefs.
They rejected the Spencer rifles, and refused
20 manufacture them until higher authority
compelled them TO adopt them. l had charge
at one time of sixty miles in front of Wash
ington, and knew that the general officers
in the regular army were constantly aiding
their Southern friends TO go through the
lines" The General ought to ask Congress to
abolish the Academy. He will admit, how
ever, that West Point graduates did some
little fighting on both sides during the war.
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, is
getting ready 10 introduce his educational
bill as soon rs Congress meets The bill was
first introduced six years ago, and provided
for a distribution of SlO5,00O0OO in ten
years. Three years afterwards the Senate
reduced the amount TO S77, 100000, to be
distributed in eight years, and passed it.
The following year it added 81, OOO, 900 with
which 10 build school houses. Neither the
Blair bill nor the Willis bill, which was a
substitute for it, ever passed the House.
Senator Blair can be depended upon 10 push
the bill as long as he remains IN the Senate,
but it is by no means certain that he will
succeed in getting 1t passed
II is prpdicted that the heavy rairs u,;1
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

It's predicted that the heavy rains will
make watermelons larger this year than
they ever were before. The consumer will
not object, provided the price is not in
creased.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07

\ man and three little girls arrived in
Tullahoma, Tenn, the other day, having
tramped all the way from Texas. They
were returning TO their home in the eastern
part of the State The man carried his
family to Texas some years ago. He lost
his all, and then his wife died. He hopes 10
rebuild his fortunes in the home he left.
This case is but one of many. Texas doesn't
prove a land of promise 70 all who go there.
Henry George addressed 5000 people in
Cincinnati on the Fourth of July He said
that the movement headed by himself and
DR.. McGlynn was growing and would sweep
everything before it, A resolution provid-
ing for the holding of a national conference
in October was adopted. While George
processes TO see success ahead of his move
ment, there are not wanting those who de-
clare that next year he will sell out TO the
highest bidder.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-07
BRIGHT BITS.

An 1erolite weighing two tons fell in Indiana
the other day, and q small boy who was hoeing
potatoes yelled with shrill excitement, Muffed."
-Burlin0ton Free Press